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Originally Posted by davecummings
Do ya's think the Adult Internet Industry should as a whole forgive and forget about the business "supporters" amongst us; or, should ya's, as individuals, deal with some or all of them by whatever business means available to you as individuals?
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I have been in business for more than thirty years. I have worked with people whose closest approach to legality was betting shops and used car lots and I have done business with corporations like Disney. Across that whole spectrum there are people you can trust and others you cannot. A lack of ethics is a permanent character flaw, not something like the common cold which passes after a few days.
Forgiveness is irrelevant and it is foolish to forget. Someone who has tried to screw you once, will do so again if the opportunity arises. Someone who has tried to screw someone else, will screw you if they can.
Dealing with realities: that's business, it's not the stuff of the naive cliché repeated over and over on here the past few months, with people somehow separating the person from the way he does business. Of course the people who pat you on the back, looking for where to stick the knife in, want you to believe they are really jolly nice chaps: they would have no-one to scam if people did the sensible thing and kept them at arms length. But there
is a line between legitimate competition and things which are unacceptable. There has to be, otherwise we would spend all our time looking over our shoulders, instead of getting on with making money.
When someone crosses that line, simple logic dictates that you shut them out of any future business. If you can, you punish them too, to discourage others. And you look to see who still does business with them, because you are looking at people who are themselves dishonest or fools. Bad news either way...